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“These songs live in hollowed out holes of America’s past; it’s as easy to imagine him playing in front of a disused gas station off an Oklahoma highway as it is to hear his band booming out of a roadhouse on the Mississippi Delta.”
Pitchfork
“Way Out Weather mixes various musical styles – folk, classic rock, psychedelia, space rock, dub hues, West African grooves, open-tuned raga drones – to arrive at a genre-defying, expansive sound.”
Line of Best Fit
“It’s impossible to just talk about Steve. He’s too good! I just want to listen to him. Hearing Steve, I was completely blown away, beyond. It made me want to be a part of it myself.”
Kurt Vile
“My favourite new artist.”
J Mascis
“Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. All star musicianship, songwriting, production. Steve is a living legend, an MVP. One of the best guitar players and songwriters of our time.”
Kevin Morby
“He is blessed with a voice as rich and warm as Tim Buckley or a young Van Morrison.”
The Wire
“He blends the traditional and the avant-garde, fusing the sounds of John Fahey, The Grateful Dead and Will Oldham into back-porch masterpieces. Simultaneously earthy and epic.”
NPR
Our heads are blown. How did this NY guitarist become a cosmic-psych visionary?.”
MOJO
“The melodies seemed soaked in a timeless well of American music: the album feels both new and familiar at the same time.”
The Guardian
“Steve Gunn is managing the transition [into a classic singer-songwriter] with uncanny elegance, fold[ing] his old jamming imperative into beautifully constructed songs.”
John Mulvey, Uncut
"Mesmerizing. Gunn’s singing echoes his playing: It is like a late-night conversation with a trusted confidant, and it gently draws you into the hypnotically beguiling songs.”
Grantland
“An immensely intuitive sense of songcraft. … Weather paddles out to the horizon of what is possible without ever losing sight of the shore… spiritual and visceral, laid back and intense, challenging and mellow.”
Magnet
“A gentle and generous helping of soul food.”
The Sun
"Sings like a prairie Lou Reed.”
Q
“One of the foremost players of his generation.”
Wall Street Journal